It was only by conceding the rights which his father had sought to establish of imposing import duties on the merchants by their own assent that he procured a subsidy.

The firmness of the baronage sprang from their having found a head.

In no point had the policy of Henry the Third more utterly broken down than in his attempt to weaken the power of the nobles by filling the great earldoms with kinsmen of the royal house.

He had made Simon of Montfort his brother-in-law only to furnish a leader to the nation in the Barons' war.

In loading his second son, Edmund Crouchback, with honours and estates he raised a family to greatness which overawed the Crown.